Galya Novents

Acting

Galya Novents

Born 1937-06-10

Galya Novents (Armenian: Գալյա Նովենց; 1 July 1937 – 22 July 2012) was a Soviet and Armenian stage and film actress, one of the most prominent Armenian actresses of the 20th century. Galya Novents was born on 1 July 1937 in Yerevan. In 1958, she graduated from Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts and Theatre. The 42nd Venice International Film Festival gave her a special mention for Best Actress, which was not awarded. In 2007, Novents was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Republic of Armenia. She died on 22 July 2012 in Los Angeles at the age of seventy-five.

Acting credits

White Dreams poster
8.5

Small provincial town at the end of the 19th century. Barber Hakob is a passionate pigeon-admirer with them finding his peace of mind and filling the dullness of provincial life with poetry. Soon he is forced to choose his pigeon loft or his daughter's happiness.

White Dreams

1985

A Piece of Sky poster
4.7

Nothing is easy for Torik, a shy orphan adopted by his aunt and uncle: he struggles to fit into village life, learn a craft, or find a wife. When Torik does fall in love – with Anjel, a local prostitute – he must face down the disapproval of his narrow-minded community and assert his right to happiness.

A Piece of Sky

1980

Blood poster
7.0

Young man is given an opportunity to live his life over again.

Blood

1990

No artwork available
4.4

Real life tragic story of Arakel whose anguish towards lost homeland made him cross Soviet-Turkish border during Stalin era.

Yearning

1990

Here, on this Crossroads poster
9.0

The film depicts five workers who are laying a street in one of the new districts of Yerevan. A complex relationship binds them. Each of them has his character and his destiny. The film touches upon common social problems on a private level.

Here, on this Crossroads

1975

Road to Sasuntsi Davit poster
10.0

A village boy dreams of being like the hero of the epic after whom he was named.

Road to Sasuntsi Davit

1988

Gikor poster
5.3

A village boy meets his tragic fate when he is sent to the city to work for a rich trader.

Gikor

1982

Master poster
NR

The forester, at the cost of becoming a thorn in the eyes of everyone, protects his native nature and the cradle:

Master

1983

No artwork available
NR

The painter, unharmed after a fall from the fifth floor, is said to have a bird born within him. Since then, he has been attempting to fly.

Accident in July

1982

This Green, Red World poster
NR

It is the tragic love story of rustic lovers Dylan and Sona. Sona is married off to a rich fellow villager whom she does not like.

This Green, Red World

1977

Hello, It's Me! poster
6.3

In post-war Armenia, physicist Artyom buries himself in work, haunted by the loss of his wife in WWII, unable to let go of the past. Meanwhile, young Tanya refuses to accept her stepfather, still waiting for her real father, missing in action for years. Their parallel journeys explore memory, loss, and the weight of history—both personal and national. As Artyom grapples with the dilemma of remembering versus forgetting, the film becomes a meditation on identity, time, and the inescapable pull of the past. Partially based on the life of prominent Soviet-Armenian scientist Artem Alikhanyan, Hello, It’s Me! is a deeply reflective exploration of history’s grip on both individuals and nations.

Hello, It's Me!

1966

Life Triumphs poster
4.8

Story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the 1915 Genocide is an eternal story of resurrection.

Life Triumphs

1977

The Tango of Our Childhood poster
6.2

This is a story about the fate of a broken family, about the uncertainty of Ruben, who left his family, about attempts to return father, and about a series of funny, but also sad events that bring this dead-end story to a conclusion.

The Tango of Our Childhood

1984

Where Were You, Man of God? poster
7.0

Based on Zorayr Khalapyan's novel of the same name, a medical graduate is appointed as a doctor to a village, never losing his human image in spite of Stalinist repression.

Where Were You, Man of God?

1992

We Are, Our Mountains poster
6.4

The tranquility of a remote Armenian mountain community is disrupted when a group of shepherds affected by the pangs of an evening hunger, decide to butcher and barbecue the sheep of another's that have strayed into their herd. An official inquiry by the city police complicates matters, and questions of law, morality and community only seem to lead to further entanglements.

We Are, Our Mountains

1969

The Song of the Old Days poster
4.0

The members of an amateur theater group share the losses and sorrows of war with Armenian provincial town's inhabitants.

The Song of the Old Days

1982

No artwork available
NR

Few people know that Komitas wrote letters to the singer, pedagogue Margarit Babayan for ten years from 1905 to 1915. Some of those letters were the basis for creating this film.

It Has Snowed in Spring

1969

No artwork available
9.0

Following the death of his beloved but unfaithful wife, a sculptor creates a mysterious fountain upon her grave in her honour – one whose water only flows in his presence. As the years pass, his son becomes determined to discover its secret.

The Spring Heghnar

1971

The Apple Orchard poster
9.0

An aged man falls in love with a woman refugee from Western Armenia. When his beloved dies because of his daughters, in a fury he destroys his only treasure - apple garden.

The Apple Orchard

1985

Breath poster
10.0

An industrial plant pollutes Lake Sevan with discharges. The public demands to close harmful production. The responsible worker, who is in charge of the plant, understands the requirements of environmentalists, but does not dare to conflict with the management.

Breath

1989

Sour Grapes poster
5.1

Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the father returns.

Sour Grapes

1974